Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHIf you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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